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Academia SinicaChinese Name: 中央研究院 Directions While it can be reached by train from Taipei main train station, perhaps the fastest way to get there is by riding the blue line of the Jieyun (捷運 or subway) to Kunyang (昆揚) station. Take exit number 1. You will find yourself facing the Chunghsiao East Road (中孝). Cross the street (there is a walkway over the road) and turn left so that the station is across to your left. Walk until you get to the bus stop. From the bus stop catch a bus numbered 212 for $15, it seems to come fairly often. The bus company is 東南汽車客運 (http://www.airbus.com.tw/city_bus/index.html). Ride the bus for about 20 minutes until you get to the stop (numbered 4 on the map inside the bus) for Academia Sinica (中研院), which is also announced in English. When you emerge you will be standing outside a post office. Follow the street to your left and continue to follow the pavement as the street curves to the right. This will place you at the entrance of Academia Sinica. There are maps of the campus on many of the roads inside. The main reception building has two cafeterias, a bookstore in the basement with many publications of Academia Sinica (M-Saturday 10:30-21), bathrooms, and an ATM for Taipei bank. Academia Sinica is Taiwan's large government research institution. It consists of a large number of smaller institutes, some of which have their own archives and libraries attached to them. Due to the large number and variety of libraries, information is split up below into each library: Institute of Modern History: Guo Tingyi LibraryGeneral Information Chinese Name: 近代史研究所 郭廷以圖書館 Directions The Institute for Modern History is marked on all the maps inside Academia Sinica. The library is the small building located immediately to the left of the institute. You will be able to see the handicapped ramp leading to the entrance, which is not well marked. Usage The library is free of charge and available for anyone conducting research and has a student ID or other proof of connection to a research institution. After showing your ID you will be given a magnetic card which you use to beep yourself into and out of the library by placing the card close to the reader at the entrance. There are lockers at the entrance where you place your backs. After putting your belongings in, choose a combination number and then lock the locker. There is no money required for this. Facilities Card Catalogs: Collections of Note In addition to books in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, there are a large collection of journals and old newspapers (many of them have been moved to the national library, however). The archive next door, separate from the library, contains many of the famous modern archive materials for the Modern History Institute. Other Related Links Description of Library and Holdings in English: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/imh/Eng/eng-Library.htm Other Notes, Comments and Experiences There were not many people when I visited and I got lots of help from the friendly employees. There was sometimes a wait for the only two photocopy machines but the price is reasonable. The journal archives have their own separate number scheme so don't go looking for them in the stacks. When you can't find journals that should be there, you may find them in other libraries on campus, like the Taishisuo. The floors have maps along the stairs which give you a rough idea of where to find materials. -K. M. Lawson (Last Visit: October 24, 2003) When I visited I found that the computers are not set up for pinyin input, which made it difficult to search at the guo ting-yi library (I had no trouble at Fu Ssu-nian). Just a bit annoying for an American and mainland-trained second language speaker. [K. Poling Jan 2008] Institute of History and Philology: Fu Ssu-nian LibraryGeneral Information Chinese Name: 歷史語言研究所 傅斯年圖書館 Usage The library is free of charge and available for anyone conducting research and has a student ID or other proof of connection to a research institution. You sign in and give up your ID in exchange for a daily badge. There are lockers at the entrance where you place your bags. After putting your belongings in, choose a combination number and then lock the locker. There is no money required for this. Facilities Computers: 3 Windows machines in the reference area for searching the library. Database for the library is available online, and the database is for the entire AS system, so you end up searching many libraries at once. There are two computers dedicated to searching the online database of Qing documents (the "neige daku" often colloquially called the "ming-qing dang'an"). A librarian must sign you in to access this catalouge. |